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Plot Summary:
Groovie Goolies is an American animated television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1972. Produced by Filmation, Groovie Goolies was a spinoff of Sabrina the Teenage Witch Show. Like most Saturday morning cartoons of the era, Groovie Goolies contained an adult laugh track.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: gothic, anime, spooky
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Josie and the Pussycats (1970)
Plot Summary:
Josie and the Pussycats is an American animated television series, based upon the Archie Comics comic book series of the same name created by Dan DeCarlo. Produced for Saturday morning television by Hanna-Barbera Productions, sixteen episodes of Josie and the Pussycats aired on CBS during the 1970-71 television season, and were rerun during the 1971-72 season. In 1972, the show was re-conceptualized as Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space, sixteen episodes of which aired on CBS during the 1972-73 season and were rerun the following season. Reruns of the original series alternated between CBS, ABC, and NBC from 1974 through 1976. This brought its national Saturday morning TV run on three networks to six years. Josie and the Pussycats featured an all-girl pop music band that toured the world with their entourage, getting mixed up in strange adventures, spy capers, and mysteries. On the small-screen, the group consisted of level-headed lead singer and guitarist Josie, intelligent tambourinist Valerie, and air-headed blonde drummer Melody. Other characters included their cowardly manager Alexander Cabot III, his conniving sister Alexandra, her cat Sebastian, and muscular roadie Alan.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anime, feel good, humorous, not serious, nostalgic
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Toonsylvania is an animated television series, which ran for 2 seasons in 1998 on FOX's Saturday morning cartoon block in its first season, then was moved to Tuesday afternoons from September 14, 1998 until December 21, 1998, when it was cancelled. Reruns aired until 2000. It was produced in part by Steven Spielberg, following in the footsteps of his previous animated series, Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. Much like Animaniacs, the show had recurring cartoon series that appeared in each episode. Unlike Animaniacs, Toonsylvania didn't have a wide range of characters and almost every episode had the same cartoon segments.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, anime, spooky, black comedy, dark comedy
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Teen Wolf (1986)
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Teen Wolf, known as The Cartoon Adventures of Teen Wolf in the United Kingdom, is an animated American television series broadcast from 1986 to 1987 that was produced by Southern Star Productions in association with Clubhouse Pictures. It was based on the 1985 live-action film, Teen Wolf.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 30 min
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Archie's TV Funnies (1971)
Plot Summary:
Archie's TV Funnies is a Saturday morning cartoon animated series produced by Filmation which appeared on CBS from September 11, 1971 to September 1, 1973. The series starred Bob Montana's Archie characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Gumby Adventures (1988)
Plot Summary:
The continuous adventures of Gumby and his pals. This time, he runs a farm which includes more pals such as a wooly mammoth, Denali, and a bee, Groobee.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min
Plot tags: claymation
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The New Archies (1987)
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The New Archies is a children's television cartoon, based upon the long-running Archie comic books and characters. The series, produced by DIC Entertainment and originally airing on NBC, re-imagined Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, Reggie Mantle, and the other teenage students of Riverdale High School as pre-teens in junior high. Fourteen episodes of the show were produced, which all aired during the show's first and only season in 1987 and were repeated in 1989. A short-lived Archie Comics series was produced bearing the same title and set in the same universe as the animated series. Reruns of the series ran on The Family Channel's Saturday morning lineup, 1991 to 1993 and on Toon Disney from 1998 to 2002. In this series Veronica speaks like a valley girl. However, in previous animated cartoons and the radio show, she had a southern accent. Dilton Doiley was replaced as the "intellectual" character by an African American named Eugene. Eugene's girlfriend Amani was another addition to the cast. Archie also gained a dog, Red.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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Monster Force was a 13-episode animated television series created in 1994 by Universal Cartoon Studios and Canadian studio Lacewood Productions. The story is set in approx. 2020 and centers on a group of teenagers who, with help of high tech weaponry, fight off against classic Universal Monsters and spiritual beings threatening humanity. Some of the crew have personal vendettas, while others fight for Mankind out of a sense of altruism. Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the first seven episodes to DVD on September 15, 2009.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Animation, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: gothic
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: anime
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: gothic, spooky
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: retro, gothic, spooky, humorous, stylized, semi serious, nostalgic
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Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1971)
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Toon version of the Archie Comics witch who uses her powers to aide the uncertainty of adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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A young vampire girl faces the joys and trials of being the new kid in town when her family moves from Transylvania to Pennsylvania.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 984
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, gothic
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, USA, India
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, gothic, captivating, 3d animation, computer animated
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Animation, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, exciting, psychotronic, gothic, sweet
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: gothic, spooky, adult cartoon, humorous, 2d animation, nostalgic
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Shaggy is turned into a werewolf, and it's up to Scooby, Scrappy and Shaggy's girlfriend to help him win a race against other monsters, and become human again.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spooky, exciting, offbeat, humorous, not serious, buddy comedy, teen comedy, 2d animation
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Preschool kids whose parents are the world's most famous monsters try to master their special powers while preparing for kindergarten.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Horror, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 23 min
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo is the seventh incarnation of the Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo, and the final first-run version of the original 1969–86 broadcast run of the series. It premiered on September 7, 1985 and ran for one season on ABC as a half-hour program. Thirteen episodes of the show were made in 1985. It replaced Scary Scooby Funnies, a repackaging of earlier shows; another repackaged series, Scooby's Mystery Funhouse, followed. The series used to air in reruns on Cartoon Network, but now the series only airs from time to time on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective, anime, spooky, exciting, humorous, semi serious
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When Casper's been being friendly lately even when playing with a boy named Jimmy, Kibosh: The King of the Underworld has Casper enrolled into a Scare School headed by the two-headed headmaster Alder and Dash. He befriends Ra, a mummy with unraveling issues and Mantha, a zombie girl who keeps falling apart. When Casper discovers the two-headed headmaster's plot to use a petrification potion to turn Kibosh into stone and take over the Underworld and Deedstown, he and his new friends must stop him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous, scary, gothic, spooky, computer animated
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Mavis navigates life without her dad, Dracula, around and discovers one of the few common human and monster truths: being a teenager bites.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: gothic, funny, light, feel good, spooky, dark fantasy
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See what happens when the student bodies of an all-vampire school and an all-werewolf school integrate with Monster High.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, not serious, gothic, sweet
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 633
Genere: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, spooky, dark comedy, dark fantasy
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Plot Summary:
Archie's Weird Mysteries is an American animated children's television program, based on the Archie comics. The series premise revolves around a Riverdale High physics lab gone awry, making the town of Riverdale a "magnet" for B-movie style monsters. The show is distributed as meeting the FCC's educational and informational children's programming requirements, and is used by commercial stations in the United States to meet this guideline. Produced by DIC Entertainment, the show was initially shown mornings on the PAX network, often with infomercials bookending the program. The following season, its repeats were syndicated to television stations throughout the US, as a way to comply with mandatory E/I regulations.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic
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Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993)
Plot Summary:
Tales from the Cryptkeeper is an animated series aimed at children made by Nelvana Limited, PeaceArch Entertainment, kaBOOM! Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television Animation. It was shown on TVO and ABC, and is still shown near Halloween on Teletoon. It was based on the live-action television show, Tales from the Crypt, which aired concurrently on HBO. Being directed at children, Tales From the Cryptkeeper was significantly milder than the live-action HBO version. The series was cancelled on December 10, 1994. In 1999, the show returned to the air as New Tales from the Cryptkeeper. The animation was different from that of the previous episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, gothic horror, gothic, bleak, witty, disturbing, spooky, surprise ending, dark fantasy
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The Little Lulu Show is an animated television series, based on the Marjorie Henderson Buell comic book character Little Lulu. The show was produced by CINAR Animation after Marge's death in 1993, and aired on HBO Family and Cartoon Network in the United States and on, CTV, and the Family Channel in Canada from 1995 to 1999. In Canada, reruns are currently being shown on both the English and French versions of Teletoon Retro. The series centered on the life and adventures of Lulu Moppet and Tubby Thompkins. Between stories, they showed stand-up comedy that Lulu hosted. This show is not to be confused with Little Lulu and Her Little Friends, an anime TV series featuring the same characters made in 1976.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: anime, humorous, realistic, not serious, sketch comedy, 2d animation
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The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (2001)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of the Grim Reaper, who has been forced into being the best friend of two children. A spin-off of the show Grim & Evil.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: gothic, humorous, not serious, anime, spooky, adult animation, adult cartoon, exciting, horror comedy, offbeat
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Sabrina: The Animated Series (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sabrina: The Animated Series is an American animated television series based on the Archie Comics character Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. It was produced by Savage Studios Ltd. and Hartbreak Films in association with DIC Entertainment, which was owned by Disney at the time. The cartoon series is a spin-off of the popular live action series that ran on ABC. Later, a movie, Sabrina: Friends Forever, and a spin-off series, Sabrina's Secret Life, were produced by DiC, this time without the ownership of Disney. Reruns currently air on the "This Is for Kids" block on the TV channel This.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Taiwan
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, spooky, semi serious, urban fantasy, nostalgic
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Monster High (2010)
Plot Summary:
The series follows the main "ghoulfriends" (girlfriends) of the franchise such as Frankie Stein, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura, Lagoona Blue, Cleo de Nile, Ghoulia Yelps, and Abbey Bominable; and how they manage in the "Monster High" high school. Other characters appear throughout the series, such as the antagonist Toralei Stripe (a were-cat).
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 2 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, gothic